Comment by caminante
4 days ago
Hype and confusion.
OpenClaw is hyped for running local/private LLMs and controlling your data, but these people don't realize the difference between
(1) running local open source LLMs
(2) and API calls to cloud LLMs.
The vast majority will do #2. To your point, a Raspberry Pi is sufficient.
For the former, you still need a lot of RAM (+32GB for larger models) so most minis are underpowered despite having unified memory and higher efficiency.
Yup. Been building my own "Claw" in Go using cloud LLMs and it's running very happily on a $6/mo VPS with 1 vCPU and 1GB of RAM.